Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte

ID: 310 ~ Source: Nebraska State Historical Society, RG2026.PH0-000006 ~ Date: 1888 circa
This file appears in: Susan LaFlesche Picotte Memorial Hospital
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Portrait of Dr. Susan Laflesche Picotte, the first female Native American doctor.

This file appears in: Susan LaFlesche Picotte Memorial Hospital

By The Explore Nebraska History team
This hospital is named in honor of the first Native American woman physician. Dr. Picotte (1865-1915) was the daughter of Mary Gale and Iron Eye, also known as Joseph La Flesche, the last…